June 28 Paul continues his line of thought concerning the insignificance of earthly wisdom and even his own desires in light of the things of God. He says that the Holy Spirit knows things about God that no one else does, or can. He goes on to say that only believers can understand the things…
June 26 Apollos was just one disciple of John who had been baptized under John’s preaching. Paul found a dozen more “disciples” who didn’t know anything about the Holy Spirit. They confessed their lack of understanding to Paul and put their faith in Jesus. At this point, they were saved; until then, they had been…
June 8 In yesterday’s Bible reading and devotional, we saw that God’s people are not slaves, but children of God. Today, in Galatians 5, we see what freedom in Christ looks like. Paul says that we were set free for the purpose of being free: free to live a godly life. Paul says that if…
June 6 Paul drives home a point in today’s passage of Galatians 3 that we saw previously. Paul asks the Galatians how they came to receive the Holy Spirit: was it by works of the Law, or did they receive the Spirit by faith? (Galatians 3:2) We saw on May 15 from Acts 8 that…
June 1 When we began reading through the Book of Acts on May 4, I said I prefer to call this book The Acts of the Holy Spirit through the Apostles. Acts 16 is a fine example of the outworking of this title. If you have been around church for very long, you may be…
May 31 We will see throughout the book of Acts that there are some people who will just never accept the simple Christian life and teachings. Legalists show up again and again causing problems. Just as the Jewish leaders did during the ministry of Jesus, religious, graceless people raised their objections over and over again….
